The UK's crematoria are struggling to cope with the nation's oversized corpses, the BBC reports.
According to the Local Government Association, the nation's growing levels of obesity mean many cremators simply cannot accomodate the wider coffins required to dispatch the deceased to the hereafter, and local councils are footing …

Re: But it wouldn't have hurt .....

Except of course that if the story had been done in metric, myself and many other brits wouldn't know what you were on about!

I'm 30 so learnt metric in school, and use it for most things, BUT there are some measurements which are just more suited to Imperial measurements, which is why most of the population still use them. For instance I have no idea what my height, weight, waist measurements are in metric. An inch is a large enough measure to be a useful approximate, where as a centimetre is just that little bit too precise in my opinion.

It's not like the America's only use Metric themselves anyway, the roads are still in Miles, and watch any US show when they refer to someones weight, and it'll generally be in Pounds, not Kilo's. (can anyone explain why stones aren't used?). Haven't heard anyone referring to waist lines so don't know which is used generally... though the way the UK and US are going, Metres will soon be more appropriate! :-)

What do you call an engineer working on corpse storage containers?

Units...

Here in America, nearly everyone uses Imperial. For nearly everything. Construction, bolts, distance, weight, its all imperial (except for scientists and academics/researchers). I myself prefer the SI system, but a lot of people (myself included) have no concept of SI in everyday life.

Corpse fired power station

Shouldn't all these oversized corpses be used to generate electricity, It seems such a waste, to just use all that stored energy doing nothing. After all, they probably got that way by sitting in front of the telly eating chips, It seems only fair that their bodies be used to generate electricity to power the televisions of the next generation of fuel ^H^H^H^H people.

Kilos and all that

How does this affect...

...the governments position on regulating our carbon footprint as part of their "green" drive? I dont know what the current plans are, but the last I heard they intended to hand out carbon-credits for people.

Does this mean that before we die, we're going to have to plant trees / use planes and cars less / switch off all our lights permanently to offset the carbon released when its finally time to light the terminal touch-paper?